Politics & Government News

5:03 AM on Sunday, April 26

Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche says the accused gunman who tried to storm the ballroom at the White House Correspondents’ Association dinner is believed to have been targeting members of the Trump administration

3:28 AM on Sunday, April 26

Syria has opened its first public trial of officials linked to former President Bashar Assad

11:39 PM on Saturday, April 25

U.S. President Donald Trump says he told his top envoys not to travel to Pakistan to negotiate with Iran

10:30 PM on Saturday, April 25

Social media posts that appear to match the California man arrested in the shooting at the White House correspondents’ dinner show he is a highly educated tutor and amateur video game developer

10:07 PM on Saturday, April 25

Officials say the suspect in the White House Correspondents' Association dinner shooting was believed to be a hotel guest

9:31 PM on Saturday, April 25

Pakistan's top leaders are trying to restart talks between the U.S. and Iran after President Trump canceled a meeting in Islamabad

9:01 PM on Saturday, April 25

Four candidates vying to lead the United Nations have spent hours being grilled about their views on issues from restoring global peace to ending escalating poverty

8:50 PM on Saturday, April 25

6:58 PM on Saturday, April 25

A small plane crash near Minneapolis on Saturday has killed North Dakota state legislator Liz Conmy and the pilot

6:24 PM on Saturday, April 25

President Donald Trump was uninjured and other top White House officials were evacuated from an annual dinner of the White House Correspondents' Association after an unspecified threat

1:20 PM on Saturday, April 25

Panama’s government says Cuba has released three of 10 of its citizens detained on the island earlier this year and accused of fabricating subversive propaganda

12:54 PM on Saturday, April 25

Mexico’s government says that two U.S. federal agents recently killed in a car crash in the country’s northern region were not authorized to participate in operations in Mexico

12:41 PM on Saturday, April 25

Former Idaho Gov. and U.S. Interior Secretary Dirk Kempthorne has died at age 74

11:46 AM on Saturday, April 25

Authorities in Colombia say that an explosive device on a bus has killed 13 people in the country's southwest region as violence there escalates

11:28 AM on Saturday, April 25

Outgoing Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán will not take his seat in parliament after a landslide election loss

6:11 AM on Saturday, April 25

A man armed with guns and knives stormed the lobby outside the White House Correspondents’ Association Dinner attended by President Donald Trump on Saturday night

4:51 AM on Saturday, April 25

President Donald Trump's attempts to cancel offshore wind projects have drawn opposition not only from environmentalists but also from Republicans

11:13 PM on Friday, April 24

President Donald Trump says he told top U_S_ envoys not to travel to Pakistan to negotiate with Iran, telling Fox News that ″they can call us anytime they want.”

9:13 PM on Friday, April 24

The latest attempt at ceasefire talks between the U.S. and Iran appears to have failed

9:00 PM on Friday, April 24

Palestinians have voted in local elections, the first in two decades in Gaza and the first in the Israeli occupied West Bank since the start of the war in Gaza